On Sunday 30 September 2001 14:33, Devin Butterfield wrote:
> Atmel AVR microcontrollers are < $10 from distributors like Digikey (and
> Digikey usually has high prices). They're very slick and VERY FAST. You can
> do 12 MIPS with one of their chips.
>
> Of course you'd need to spend some time learning their instruction
> sets/learning how to code in C for them. There is a C compiler in the ports
> named avr-gcc to do just that.
>
> As for programmers, you can program these chips with a simple homebrew
> cable that plugs into your parallel port.
>
> Please see:
>
> http://www.bsdhome.com/avrprog
>
> Is that cheap enough?
Oh, very nice! Definate contender for "version 2" of this controller. I'd
still like to get version 1 working though. Thanks for the info!
--Bart
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